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Cocaine Route and Monitoring Support Project -
CORMS
IfS/2011/260-644 In partnership with:
CIVIPOL FIIAPP SOCA
General Conference “Improving responses to organized crime and drug trafficking on the Cocaine Route
Rome, 28-30 May 2013
The birth of the Cocaine Route Monitoring and Support
(CORMS) Eu-Project
The CORMS service contract no. IfS/2011/260-644, was
signed by the European Commission on behalf of the
European Union, and by Italian Ministero degli Affari
Esteri, Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo
Sviluppo (“DGCS”) as leader of the winning consortium
on 14 March, 2011.
CORMS activities for organizational reasons started from
1 June 2011.
CORMS Project - Consortium members
DIREZIONE GENERALE PER LA COOPERAZIONE ALLO
SVILUPPO Leader of the project, the Directorate General for Development and Cooperation in
the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs manages a number of development projects
in all continents. It can ensure cooperation and access to resources from most
Italian public and private institutions, including all government departments,
universities, leading private enterprises. It manages a vast network of local offices
in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Given its privileged position and its long
experience in development projects, the Italian Development and Cooperation can
ensure a solid management and can provide a high level expertise for auditing,
consulting, technical assistance, capacity building and monitoring of projects and
programmes.
CIVIPOL is the consulting and service company of the French Ministry of
Interior. Founded in 2001, it provides services in the areas of expertise of the
French Ministry of Interior, in particular in the fields of homeland security, civil
protection and border control. It enables foreign States and French companies to
benefit from the know-how of the top experts of the French Police and
Gendarmerie and the most renowned specialists of security issues. CIVIPOL puts
these expert skills at the disposal of its clients, to carry out auditing, consulting,
technical support and training missions. Besides, CIVI.POL is used to provide
private expertise thanks to its wide network of international consultants. Globally,
about 3 000 experts are then likely to be mobilized throughout CIVIPOL action.
CORMS Project - Consortium members
FIIAPP The International Foundation of Administration and Public Policies of Spain
(FIIAPP) has a sound experience in managing and administrating governance and
consolidation projects of public institutions, and is able to guarantee the effective
mobilization of international human resources involved in various activities, as
well as efficiency and effectiveness in various management and coordination
tasks inherent to international cooperation projects.
SOCA - Serious Organised Crime Agency Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) established in 2006 is a powerful law
enforcement body with new far reaching powers, approach and remit. Its
strategic priorities in tackling serious organized crime are illicit drugs trafficking,
recovering the proceeds of crime and organized immigration crime. Other
important areas include fraud, hi-tech crime counterfeiting and firearms. The
agency provides specialist support to police forces, customs and other law
enforcement agencies both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Working
with and through, others to direct concerted attacks against key criminals and
criminal networks, SOCA’s resources includes specialist criminal enforcement
teams who have the combined powers to share information and a large
intelligence function including world class technical and covert capabilities.
CORMS’ Objectives
Overall objectives: The overall objectives of the project are to increase internal and external coherence of the EU actions under the Cocaine Route Programme and a better coordination of field initiatives. Specific objectives: • At regional level: 1.To strengthen regional and trans-regional coordination among stakeholders; 2.To ensure appropriate, consistent and complementary synergies between the different projects of the Cocaine Route Programme. • At multinational level: 1.To enhance the coherence of the EU’s field action with bilateral initiatives of Member States; 2.To monitor and to facilitate the information sharing between the EU and similar initiatives of other international or regional organization in order to reduce overlapping.
Project activities
1. Taking stock of existing field initiatives; 2. Monitoring of ongoing projects of the Cocaine Route Programme; 3. Supporting cooperation and information sharing of both regional and trans-regional initiatives; 4. Providing opinions and recommendations for joint initiatives. 5. Monitoring and follow-up of each component of the Cocaine Route Programme in view of fostering better
general coherence of projects; 6. Providing updated analyses of criminal trends in the concerned regions (also through active support from
contributing EU Member States); evaluating the appropriateness of ongoing actions to occurred criminal changes;
7. Producing specific reports with recommendations on regional and horizontal issues: global and regional situation updates; developments of criminal trends; state of sea, air and land interdiction; prosecutorial ability to investigate and bring to justice criminal organisation as such; existence and appropriateness of existing legislation at national and regional levels; investigative ability of law-enforcement authorities: use of special investigative means, capability to investigate complex organisations rather than merely single conducts; regional and trans-regional cooperation in criminal matters: legislation, police cooperation, extradition, mutual legal assistance, joint investigations, exchange of information;
8. Supporting and facilitating the exchange of inter-projects information through dedicated web based tool: a secured and closed network with information, first findings, regular updates and e-mail.
9. Gathering detailed information on ongoing initiatives at regional and horizontal levels; 10. Providing feedbacks (and recommendations) to EU concerned national authorities and other national or
international actors, with the modalities agreed with European Commission; 11. Supporting networking and effective exchange of information between the main target groups and
stakeholders of the projects.
Expected results
1. Information, evaluations and analyses on transnational criminal phenomena in the targeted regions and their impact on European security updated and analysed;
2. EU geographic and thematic financial instruments identified, reviewed and compared with past and present other similar initiatives conducted bilaterally by EU Member States and any other national or international actors;
3. Progress achieved in the implementation of the seven ongoing EU-Projects in the targeted regions monitored and evaluated;
4. Other existing initiatives on the ground, either bilateral or multilateral, identified and listed; 5. Dialogue and interaction between the four ongoing IFS Cocaine Route projects and between
them and anyhow related initiatives improved; 6. Synergy and cooperation between beneficiary institutions and regional platforms fostered;
feed-backs from relevant beneficiaries obtained and analysed; 7. Actions or measures for adjustments of ongoing projects and future programming
recommended to EU COM and circulated among stakeholders.
Topics and areas of work
Justice/Prosecution (organised crime and money laundering, international cooperation in criminal matters, etc);
Criminal investigations (including special investigative means and police cooperation)
Border control/Custom
Financial investigations and intelligence; criminal assets
Cocaine Route Programme
AIRCOP with the aim at strengthening the anti- drug capacities at selected airports in West Africa
and Latin America
PRELAC with the aim at contributing to the fight against the manufacture of drugs and its trafficking in
Latin America
SEACOP with the aim at strengthening the
cooperation in contrasting maritime trafficking in West Africa
GAFISUD with the aim at supporting the fight against money laundering and financial crime in Latin America and Caribbean countries
AMERIPOL with the aim at contributing to the
fight against criminal network in Latin America and Caribbean
countries
CORMS
WAPIS with the aim at facilitating the collection,
management , sharing and analysis of police information at national, regional and global
level to more effectively combat drugs trafficking, money laundering and illegal
immigration in ECOWAS countries
AML/WA with the aim at developing AML
activities in the non-banking financial and Designated Non-Financial Businesses and
Professions sectors
Countries involved and project coordination
AIRCOP Cape Verde, Senegal, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Brazil, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Togo, Argentina, Benin, Cameroon, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Kenya, Venezuela and associated countries Ethiopia
and South Africa
PRELAC Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela
SEACOP Cape Verde, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin, Guinea Bissau, Gambia,
GAFISUD Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay
AMERIPOL Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Martinique, Venezuela, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago
CORMS
WAPIS Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo
AML/WA Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Cape Verde
Information gathering
WEB
PERSONAL CONTACTS
Information gathering Field missions undertaken in West Africa
Dakar (Senegal) 12-16 Feb. 2012
EU-Delegation Liaison Officers
AIRCOP
CAAT/JATF
GIABA
CILD
Dakar Platform
UNODC
CENTIF
INTERPOL
Lomè (Togo) 2-6 July 2012
AIRCOP
CAAT/JATF
OCTRIDB
ARMED FORCES
MINISTRY FOR
NATIONAL
SECURITY
JUDICIAL POLICE
EU-Delegation
CENTIF INTELLIGENCE
SERVICES
Liaison Officers
EU-MS Embassies
Information gathering Field missions undertaken in Latin America
Brasilia (Brazil) 4-9 Dec. 2011
EU-Delegation Liaison Officers
AMERIPOL
AIAMP
SENAD
REFCO
Central Bank
GAFISUD COAF
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
7-9 May 2012
FAPLA General
Prosecutor Office
GAFISUD
EU-Delegation
FIU
SEDRONAR
Federal Police
UNODC
Information gathering Field missions undertaken in Latin America
Bogota (Colombia) 11-13 Mar. 2013
EU-Delegation Liaison Officers
AMERIPOL
DIRAN
DIJIN
Attorney
General Office
FIU
Lima (Peru) 14-16 Mar, 2013
DEVIDA
PRELAC
DIRANDRO
SUNAT
National Police
EU-Delegation Liaison Officers
Ministry of Justice
JUDICIAL POLICE
Attorney
General Office
Incoming information
CORMS Team
Laws and international agreements
Ideas
Contacts Training
Reports
Projects
Documents
Information collecting and sharing
General conferences
CRP steering committees
Information Analysis and reports to EC
Opinions and recommendations for joint initiatives
Criminal trends in the concerned regions
Recommendations on regional and horizontal issues
Warning for overlapping projects
Information Sharing
Cocaine Route Web based tool (http://corms.esteri.it/)
The web-based tool was launched during the First International Conference and subsequently, together with the Project Manager of EuropeAid. So far there are 89 users authorized to enter in the secured part of the website. Until today more than 300 documents (semi-annual and mission reports, course/training report, MoU with partners, EU strategy paper, UN reports, useful laws of the involved countries, etc.) were uploaded in the website
Information Sharing
CRP Web page Documents section
Information Sharing
CRP Web page News section
Information Sharing
CRP Web page Resources section
This section provides
interesting materials
including reports,
legal resources, press
releases, articles and
other documents
Information Sharing
CRP Web page Forum section
Information Sharing
CRP Web page Calendar
Information Sharing
CRP Web page Contacts section
Information Sharing
The Cocaine Route quarterly newsletter
Written in English, it contains one editorial, several articles written by the T.Ls of the CRP EU projects, and a section with the upcoming events. It is addressed to all the people interested in the programme and contribute to keep them informed about the new initiatives, progress, events and project updates of the CRP
What has been achieved?
• Availability of all relevant information concerning the
CRP EU-Projects in one place;
• All the projects team leaders collected as members of
one global programme;
• Possibility to exchange every kind of information in a
dedicated and secured forum;
• Creation of one single and trusted list of stakeholders
in the three areas of work;
• Develop synergies and cooperation between the team
leaders for joint activities;
• Increase the awareness of the global EU CRP
Programme between partner countries;
• Possibility of looking at all relevant laws in matter of
drug and money laundering of the partners countries.
What can be done better?
•Enhance the ownership of the programme of the
Partner Countries;
•Improve the visibility of the CRP EU-Projects
activities among the stakeholders and beneficiaries
also through a wider diffusion of the newsletter;
•Increase the information sharing at EU level between
the HQ and the Delegations;
•Increase the willingness of new countries to join the
EU-Projects by improving the knowledge about the
CRP;
•Better use of the EU funds, reducing overlaps
through a strengthen exchange of information on
planned and ongoing activities.
Thanks for your attention!
Contacts:
Marco ALMA
CORMS Team Leader
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +39 06 3691 3932
Maria Luisa FICHERA
CORMS Project Manager
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +39 06 3691 4461
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Directorate General for Development and Cooperation
Piazzale della Farnesina,1
00135 Roma - Italy